I think I’ve just about managed to fix the head. I had varnished the kit to keep it from happening again. Then I got a bubble at the base of one of the fingers. I carefully removed it with an exacto blade as I figured that would be better than selling it with the bubble and having a customer peel it, potentially ruining the paint on a large part of the hand. It look a small area down to raw vinyl. So I then patched it with tinted varnish. I’ve still got a ways to go to match the color and texture though. This baby is bound and determined to be a budget/ booboo doll. sigh If I could afford it, I would just keep her or gift her to family.

Your skin coloring looks so real, especially on the first hand photo. Are you still baking it at 295F? May be that is a problem.
When I recently bake for 11 min on 265F for nail tips (as tutorial said because thinning medium is involved) it took almost all coloring off the limbs and I had to start on shading again. I’ll never bake anything for 11 min again.

So I’ve baked and temporarily assembled the doll so that I could try some clothes on it. I can’t decide if this baby is a boy or a girl. I mean, I AM leaning more toward one than the other, but I’m also trying to factor in which gender it looks the most like/which it will be most successfully sold as. Opinions?

I had brought the doll with me to visit my friend at the hospital and on the way, stopped at the pharmacy to pick up an Rx. The lady behind the counter loved his nostril and drool detail and told me to let her know when I have a girl available so hopefully I won’t have any issues marketing the next one. I think I’ve figured out an outfit for this little fella though. Lol